Homnage has become an abandoned city, but there are still many things that can be used here.
What the Soviet army needed most was iron, which was used to make weapons. The officers and soldiers immediately began a large-scale search after entering the city.
This city is very quiet, surrounded by white snow. In addition, this place was a battlefield before. The soldiers involved in the search all had their guns loaded. They entered every house that was close to collapse and were full of vigilance, fearing that a Nazi would suddenly pop out.
Similarly, soldiers also hope to have some adventures, such as encountering civilians.
As a result, they found no living things except themselves. Instead, among the bricks and rubble, the soldiers found a large number of daily necessities. For example, a large number of iron fists, wooden bowls and baskets made of tree rattan. There were many broken wooden furniture, and
There are plenty of cutlery.
Many of today's daily necessities are made of metal, and it would be a pity to recycle them into weapons, so the soldiers put them into their pockets one after another.
The messy and useful things found in the city were all piled up in the small square in the city. This place had been quickly cleaned up by a group of soldiers. They mainly removed the scattered bricks and rubble, and then this became the camp area.
Balzen ordered two platoons of soldiers, fully armed, to check the positions of enemy artillery in the distance, and he also went to the battlefield in the north of the city.
"The battle must have been very fierce. These armored vehicles are full of bullet holes!" Balzen stroked these war relics. Some parts of the armored vehicles were obviously taken away. This must have been done by Roshakov. They were also affected.
Order, take everything you can, but when they withdraw, there are still German troops confronting them in the north!
"Company commander! Should we search this battlefield immediately?" a platoon leader asked.
"No! Comrade Rosal, let your platoon stay in the city. Even if it seems safe here, I ask your people to still be on combat readiness. Work hard tonight and your people will stand guard."
"Follow the order!" The platoon leader was of course reluctant in his heart. The military order was such that he had no choice but to relay the order. The night was very cold, so he had no choice but to do the hard work of being a sentry.
Balzen shook his head. This battlefield was miserable. One thing that was gratifying was that most of the people lying down here were Germans.
In this war, the Soviet army has captured more than four million people. This is something the division political commissar Yelentina often said. This is to serve as a warning and ask the soldiers of the 284th Division to be ashamed of those people.
At the same time, this shocking number also illustrates the seriousness of the series of disastrous defeats suffered by the Soviet army in the face of the German army. The battle loss ratio was astonishingly high. Only in the 284th Division, the situation was reversed.
As company commander, Balzen lived in a basement.
The place had obviously been searched. The soldier lit a kerosene lamp and placed a fragment of a map on the desk that had been turned upside down just now.
Seeing the commander coming, several soldiers quickly reported: "Report to the company commander, we found this house. It seems very special here! It looks like some kind of headquarters."
"Oh? Is that so?" Balzen looked around curiously, and his intuition told him that there was indeed something special here. Especially this map fragment, the text on it was in Russian. Suddenly, a consciousness came to his mind, "This may be the place where Rosharko used to be."
Husband’s headquarters.”
After further searching, it was found that there was even a place to sleep here. Balzen was very happy and immediately ordered: "In this operation, this basement will be my company headquarters. Now that the sky is getting darker, comrades go prepare their own internal affairs."
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Balzen decided to clean up the house himself and make the bed himself. He ordered the team in charge of the radio station to immediately set up the antenna and place the radio station inside the headquarters to avoid freezing and damaging the battery.
Of course, the basement was already a little cold until a soldier came in carrying an iron basin filled with firewood, and when a bonfire was lit, it gradually became warmer.
The soldiers outside, including the militiamen, quickly set up tents. The ruins in the city were filled with things that could be burned, and the broken furniture was now piled together, turning into pools of bonfires.
Many people were tired from traveling and traveling, and they started to move quickly after entering the city, so everyone was exhausted.
Balzen would not be stupid enough to use his subordinates as slaves. They had worked very hard today and immediately ordered: "Everyone who has no additional tasks, start resting immediately!"
The one with extra tasks is the platoon ordered to stand guard.
A normal Soviet platoon has only ten people, because there are only five people in a squad. After the organization of the 284th Division almost collapsed, Yang Mingzhi reorganized the unit according to the organization of the Chinese *** team decades later. The strength of a platoon
Up to thirty-five people.
The sentries spread out and established open and concealed sentries.
A squad of sentries was deployed directly north of the city. In addition to standing guard, they were also ordered to wait for the return of their comrades who had gone to investigate the enemy's artillery farther north.
Balzen was very relieved about his people, but the sun had set and there was still no news from those guys.
This made him worried, so he asked other people in the headquarters: "Tell me, I asked two platoons to investigate, and they haven't come back for several hours. Are they in any danger?"
"It shouldn't be! Our comrades are all battle-hardened. The comrades in our reconnaissance company and guard company are the most elite troops in the entire division! Maybe they have discovered something more impressive!"
"They are like explorers discovering treasures?" Balzen's doubts were dispelled by the soldier's words. Yes, his people have always been valued by the superiors. They will not come at this time, maybe they have discovered the artillery positions abandoned by the enemy.
, and a lot of treasures?
"Okay! Let's keep waiting!"
So, why haven't the two advancing platoons come back yet? Four hours have passed since they set out! The weather is getting colder and colder, other comrades have fallen asleep in the camp, and there is loud snoring in the city. And these people are in
What to do?
The answer was just as the soldier guessed, and something considerable was achieved.
The two platoons had already arrived at the enemy's artillery position, which was already in ruins. The soldiers suddenly discovered that several cannons had been shattered. It seemed that they had exploded, because the barrels had exploded like blooming roses.
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In the ruins, several soldiers found intact artillery shells, which immediately made people nervous.
The two platoon leaders bravely walked forward to take a closer look, and found that these were indeed heavy artillery shells in an unfired state. They were immediately happy. After all, the warheads of the several heavy artillery shells found were not large, and the shells were not large.
The body is huge. This means that you can harvest a lot of brass, as well as a lot of high-quality explosives!
What they found was not just this. The soldiers continued to walk north, and there were a lot of ammunition and firearms scattered on the snow.
This is clear evidence of the hasty evacuation of the German army. Of course, if they continue to move north, they can still find a lot of firearms and ammunition. After all, many soldiers of the two regiments of Hoffman and Floyd discarded a lot of sundries.
Want to run faster.
Behind the artillery position was the former German camp, and the remains of the camp were obvious. Many damaged tents were discarded, as well as some ammunition boxes! Soon, ten wooden boxes were placed in front of the two platoon leaders. After opening them in public, these
There are a lot of 7.92mm rifle ammunition inside.
The matter was serious! The two platoons decided to station some of their people here. They immediately unloaded the tents from the accompanying horse-drawn sleighs and quickly set them up, and sent another squad back to report the news. (To be continued.) 8